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Beyond the Thin Client: Why a Smart Client CRM Solution May Be a Smarter Choice

Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This white paper compares and contrasts the two primary alternatives to thin clients and examines the differentiating characteristics that could impact your CRM implementation. Read on to learn why a smart client CRM solution may be a smarter choice.

The IT Management Software Megavendors

BMC Software, Inc — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The current recession and credit crunch deeply affected IT spending in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. This SWOT Analyst report for Q3 2009 regroups the market contenders by categories for an easier evaluation to enable vendor strategy professionals to substantiate decisions about their partnership and go-to-market strategies.

Cashing in on Customer Intelligence in the Financial Services Industry

Infor CRM — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this 1to1 Executive Dialogue, Don Peppers and Steve Muran talk about the importance of customer retention, the need to integrate disparate sources of data, and the opportunity for financial institutions to rebuild customer trust as a means to competitive advantage.

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Lower IT Costs Now - Roadmap for Developing a Thin-Client Strategy

PC Connection in partnership with HP ThinClient — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This presentation transcript explores how thin client deployments can enable businesses to achieve efficiency and high-performance benefits in your infrastructure. Receive recommendations for developing your own thin-client strategies.

The Business Case for Automating Document Driven Business Processes

Kofax, Inc. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper provides the compelling case for taking an enterprise approach to automating document driven business processes. Find out how document capture is quickly moving toward mainstream adoption and how the shift from scan-to-archive to scan-to-process is profoundly changing the strategic importance of capture as an enterprise standard.

Solving the Challenges of Exponential Data Growth

Syncsort — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications.

Avoid the Dragonfly ' s Sting: The Importance of the BI Licensing Model

LogiXML — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper looks at end-user and server-based licensing fees for BI solutions and argues that server-based fees makes much more sense.

How to avoid encryption chaos: The art of key management

PGP Corporation — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Review common frustrations that organisations experience when implementing and managing encryption technology. Nigel Stanley of Bloor Research reveals top tips for avoiding encryption chaos and references recent headlines to emphasize the need for encrypted data.

Best Practices for SAP Upgrades & amp; Migrations with HP and Novell

Hewlett-Packard Company — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Join experts from HP and Novell in this webcast as they discuss how to empower your SAP solutions, deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, and execute upgrades and migrations successfully.

Lower IT Costs Now - Roadmap for Developing a Thin-Client Strategy

PC Connection in partnership with HP ThinClient — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast explores how thin client deployments can enable businesses to achieve efficiency and high-performance benefits in your infrastructure. Receive recommendations for developing your own thin-client strategies.

PODCAST: Lower IT Costs Now - Roadmap for Developing a Thin-Client Strategy

PC Connection in partnership with HP ThinClient — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This podcast explores how thin client deployments can enable businesses to achieve efficiency and high-performance benefits in your infrastructure. Receive recommendations for developing your own thin-client strategies.

E-Guide: Compliance and Risk Management Strategy

Ounce Labs, an IBM Company — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

CIOs are increasingly approaching information management responsibilities with a risk management lens. This eGuide will look at how to take a strategic approach to risk management and compliance and mitigate operational risks of outsourcing services. Plus, how to define risks, core assets, and establish acceptable levels of risk will be discussed.

Oracle Crystal Ball: Dramatically Improve the Quality of Your Strategic Business Decisions

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Increase revenue. Decrease costs. Reduce development time. Every day you strive to meet these goals. And each business decision you make either enables you to advance toward them - or impedes your progress. Read this paper to learn more.

Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

Microsoft — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast, with an introduction from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, examines the importance of CRM software has on a company’s bottom line.

Open Source at Intel: Building with the Ecosystem

Intel Corporation — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This brochure details how Intel works with Open Source software developers who can adopt, change and redistribute the underlying code, helping drive rapid technological innovation.

Migrating From UNIX/ RISC To Red Hat Enterprise Linux & #174; On Intel & #174; Processor & ...

Red Hat and Intel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel® processor-based servers is helping companies cut TCO by up to 50 percent and more versus comparable UNIX/RISC solutions, while providing a better foundation for growth. This white paper outlines the key benefits of migration and provides a step-by-step guide to conducting a successful transition.

The Web Hacking Incidents Database 2009 Bi-Annual Report

Breach Security — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Criminals focus on exploiting web application vulnerabilities in order to plant malware and thus infect clients who visit websites. Read this report to learn more about the drivers behind web hacking, the vulnerabilities hackers exploit, and the types of organizations attacked most often.

Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games - Part 3

Intel — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this 3rd part of the Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games series, you'll learn how to give your agents higher orders of intelligence. The agents can already deal with the immediate situation they find themselves in; now you are working toward artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with broader goals and the bigger picture.

Business Case for Data Protection: Study of CEOs and other C-level Executives

Ounce Labs, an IBM Company — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This study looks at what senior executives think about the value of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. It is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of safeguarding sensitive and confidential information.

Increasing Business Efficiency and End-User Productivity

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The following report features Michael Fauscette, group vice president of IDC's Software Business Solutions research, answering questions posed by Oracle's customers regarding business efficiency and end-user productivity.

Data Integration: Creating a Trustworthy Data Foundation for Business Intelligence

SAP America Inc — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper discusses the importance of data integration and help you identify the key challenges of integrating data. It also provides you with an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data.

How Outsourcing Drives Business Process Improvements

CompuCom Systems, Inc. — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

More than ever, business and IT must collaborate to meet current business realities. Significantly, CIOs must map out long-term strategies that address business plans over the next three to five years, with the delivery of high-quality IT services as a key element of strategic planning. Read this white paper to learn more.

Furniture Manufacturer Improves Customer Satisfaction through Customer Analysis with SPSS

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Customer knowledge is market advantage. To refine its edge and better manage customer relationships, Haworth needed to learn what was important to its customers and deploy that knowledge to key decision makers. Read how they did it.

Bloor Research - Data Discovery Spotlight

Talend — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

In this Spotlight Report, Research Director Philip Howard explains why data discovery is of fundamental importance to data integration, data quality, and many other projects ranging from business intelligence through master data management to data governance and data archival. Read on to learn more about the importance of data discovery.

The Great Virtualization Dilemma of the Next Decade: What You Need to Know

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Despite progress in Virtualization, much development still remains. With predications that virtualization will become pervasive, this research highlights forthcoming challenges and strategic issues facing IT planners.

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.

The Importance of Measuring ROI: The Indicator of Business and IT Performance

SAP AG — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

A disciplined IT performance measurement program is critical not only for business growth but also for economic viability. This paper provides a framework for a Return on IT (ROIT™) methodology and discusses how to deploy it within a company's business processes.

Bloor white paper: The Importance of an Information Strategy

IBM — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

In this paper we will discuss what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one. We will also consider IBM's Information Agenda, that company's approach to assisting in the development of an Information Strategy.

Introduction to Requirements & #45; The Critical Details That Make or Break a Project

Global Knowledge — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This whitepaper will discuss the various kinds of information technology requirements, their importance, the different requirement types, the concept of requirements engineering and the process for gathering requirements.

Delivering Quality Leads, Not Just Quantity: The Interactive Value of Webinars

Citrix Online — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Using interactive media such as Webinars can help marketers effectively balance quality with quantity when it comes to lead generation. Download the white paper to learn more.

Leadership Training: Three Perspectives on Development Methods That Work

SkillSoft Corporation — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

In this brief, three top HR and talent development experts from Continental Automotive Systems, Vail Resorts Management Company, and ArvinMeritor share their insights on leadership training, giving three perspectives on development methods that work.

Integrating and Automating Composite Applications

BMC Software, Inc — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

This Enterprise Management Associates white paper will describe how new technologies are being used by IT to develop new applications to give a new competitive edge to their enterprises; provide an overview of the new challenges involved; investigate solutions to overcome these challenges; and show how these solutions drive business value.

EMC ' s Comprehensive Approach for Building Proven Information Infrastructure Solutions

Wipro Technologies — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

In this paper, Wipro Technologies focuses on the methodology EMC follows for building its Proven Solutions for organizations of all sizes and domains. This paper also demonstrates the methodology using an example of the solution development process for Microsoft Exchange in physical and VMware environments.

Agile Development: Sure-Fire Ways to Fail When You Scale

VersionOne Inc. — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

While there are many "how to" options to extending agile beyond a few teams, this white paper focuses on critical recommendations for organizations moving to full-scale agile development. Avoiding these pitfalls can mean the difference between...

Five Myths of Agile Development

VersionOne Inc. — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

In this white paper, you will gain insight into five myths commonly associated with agile development. Explore what agile development is in reality, what it is not, and the true benefits of transitioning to agile methods in your organization.

Differentiation through Service Excellence Driving Customer Loyalty and Service Profitability

SAP America Inc — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

The importance of achieving service excellence is growing. Products are increasingly becoming commodities, and CEOs are recognizing that first-rate service is crucial to enhancing customer satisfaction. This paper explores the crucial links between customer service and customer satisfaction.

Optimizing Agile for Your Organization

Construx Software — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper will outline the major organizational, cultural, and project considerations that are critical to a successful Agile adoption.

Unified Communications: Strategic Value, Benefits and the Role of System Integrators

Hewlett-Packard Company — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper shows how current economic and technological trends increase the importance of efficient communication and collaboration processes for enterprises. Further, it demonstrates how unified communications (UC) can help companies to address these challenges.

Strong data security to protect critical assets: A focus on security yields compliance for free

Thales — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This paper offers thought leadership to help you address challenges surrounding information security and compliance issues. It will also introduce you to the value and importance of a hardware security module as a key part of any successful information security program.

Strategic Meeting Management: Best Practices for Success: A Tips and Tools Guide to ...

StarCite — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

In studying the best practices in strategic meeting management, there's proven evidence that a "managed" meetings program can generate significant and immediate cost savings for corporations of all sizes.

Mid & #45;market Meetings Management

StarCite — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Aberdeen research has found that although both the mid-market and large sectors have similar performance results and organizational structures for meetings management, large organizations are better positioned for long-term success.

Differentiating With Technical Support, a JBoss Customer Support Study

JBoss, a Division of Red Hat — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Strategic organizations are increasingly looking for ways to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their technology assets while improving the return on their investment. In this white paper, you will discover how expert customer support services can have a dramatic impact on both as you explore the success of JBoss middleware technology.

Virtualization For Better, Faster, More Cost-Effective Quality Assurance

Hewlett-Packard Company — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more.

Strategic QA: Steps to Effective Software Quality Assurance

IBM — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This whitepaper details the challenges and solutions available for organizations wishing to improve their software development process, reduce costs, improve quality and increase reliability of planning.

Hitting the Moving Target of Operational Excellence: Identifying and Obtaining the ...

SAP America Inc — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper presents IDC’s framework for implementing operational excellence (opex) and helps the reader move toward an effective op ex implementation while avoiding potential pitfalls.

The Importance of Operational Simplicity in Selecting D2D Data Protection Solutions

Data Domain — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Understanding and measuring an offering’s operational simplicity is crucial criteria for selecting a D2D solution. As we at Taneja Group will explore in this brief, we believe that Data Domain has delivered an offering that personifies this notion of operational simplicity.

Emerging Media Series: How Blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) Impact B2B Technology ...

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT

This report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing, finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought.

Podcast: Emerging Media Series II: Blogs and Real Simple Syndication Report

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT

This podcast will focus on the content of a new KnowledgeStorm research report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing. The research finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought.

Podcast: Emerging Media Series, Issue Two: Blogs and Real Simple Syndication Report

KnowledgeStorm Webinars — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Emerging Media Series: How Blogs & Real Simple Syndication (RSS) Impact B2B Technology ...

KnowledgeStorm, Inc — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT